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The Global Repricing of Assets Can’t Be Stopped

March 19, 2020

The Global Repricing of Assets Can’t Be Stopped All bubbles pop, period. The financial elites are pushing a narrative that asset prices, sales and profits will all return to January 2020 levels as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic fades. Get real, baby. Nothing is going back to January 2020 levels. Rather than the “V-shaped recovery” expected […]

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Bizarro World: The Herd Has Truly Gone MadYou’re not crazy. The world we now live in is

July 6, 2019

Bizarro World: The Herd Has Truly Gone MadYou’re not crazy. The world we now live in is Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. ~ Charles Mackay (1841) Like me, you may often […]

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We Have Seen This Happen Before The Last 3 Recessions – And Now It Is The Worst It Has Ever Been

April 15, 2019

We Have Seen This Happen Before The Last 3 Recessions – And Now It Is The Worst It Has Ever Been Since the last financial crisis, we have witnessed the greatest corporate debt binge in U.S. history.  Corporate debt has more than doubled since then, and it is now sitting at a grand total of […]

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Corporate Share Buybacks Looking Dumber By The Day

November 26, 2018

Corporate Share Buybacks Looking Dumber By The Day A recent MarketWatch article notes that: GE was one of Wall Street’s major share buyback operators between 2015 and 2017; it repurchased $40 billion of shares at prices between $20 and $32. The share price is now $8.60, so the company has liquidated between $23 billion and […]

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Mind Blowing

November 7, 2018

Mind Blowing We’re in one of the longest economic expansion cycles in history and nobody’s happy. It’s mind blowing. You’d think 2018 would have people dancing in the streets. 3.7% unemployment, record stock market prices. Well the ladder until recently that is. So let me rephrase: What happens if you have record buybacks, record dividends, […]

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Stock Prices Are Surging Because Corporations Are Spending More Money On Stock Buybacks Than Anything Else

September 21, 2018

Stock Prices Are Surging Because Corporations Are Spending More Money On Stock Buybacks Than Anything Else The primary reason why stock prices have been soaring in recent months is because corporations have been buying back their own stock at an unprecedented pace.  In fact, the pace of stock buybacks is nearly double what it was […]

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charles hugh smith-The Only Two Charts You Need to Understand the S&P 500

December 7, 2014

charles hugh smith-The Only Two Charts You Need to Understand the S&P 500. As long as corporations continue borrowing money to buy back their own stocks and the yen keeps dropping, the SPX will continue lofting higher. Why is the S&P 500 rising, even as valuations are getting stretched, profit growth is declining and sales […]

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